The black box will soon be taken to Moscow for
deciphering, according to the Russian Defense Ministry.
MOSCOW, December 27. /TASS/. The flight data recorder of the Tu-154 plane of the Russian Defense Ministry that crashed in the Black Sea on Sunday has been pulled from the water, a law enforcement source told TASS.
The Russian Defense
Ministry confirmed later that the black box had been recovered from
the water.
"The
parameter flight data recorder has been recovered from the water. The plane
with the black box will soon depart from Sochi to Moscow where it will be
deciphered by specialists of the Defense Ministry," the source said.
The main flight data recorder of the crashed Tu-154
plane will be taken to the Central Scientific and Research Institute of the Air
Force in the Moscow Region in the coming hours, according to Russia's Defense
Ministry:
"The main flight data recorder was found at 5.42
a.m. some 1,600 meters away from the coast at the depth of 17 meters by the
Falcon search apparatus."
A Tu-154 plane from Russia’s Defense Ministry crashed in
the early morning hours of December 25 shortly after taking off from the Black
Sea resort of Sochi.
There were 92 people on board the aircraft, including
eight crew members and 84 passengers that lost their lives in the plane
disaster. Among those on the fatal flight was the Executive Director of the
Spravedlivaya Pomoshch (Fair Aid) charity fund, Elizaveta Glinka, better known
to the Russian public as Dr. Liza, as well as military servicemen and nine
reporters from Russia's Channel One, Zvezda and NTV networks. The plane was
also carrying nearly three dozen members of the world-renowned Alexandrov
Ensemble, an official army choir of the Russian Armed Forces. The ensemble was
on its way to celebrate New Year’s Eve with Russia’s Aerospace Forces at the
Hmeymim air base in Syria.
The Russian Defense Ministry said that fragments from
the Tu-154 disaster had been discovered some 1.5 kilometers off the coast of
Sochi at depths of 50-70 meters. None of the passengers on the flight survived.
According to the FSB’s latest conclusions, no evidence has been found linking
the crash to terrorism.
Source: ITAR-TASS 27-12-2016
